Example sentences of "able [to-vb] at a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The labour force is becoming more like the military with the use of a limited age range and the screening out of anyone with any kind of disability who might not be able to work at a pace and with the flexibility and precision which will maintain the return on the very large capital investment . |
| 2 | this time we were able to stand at a distance from it all and weigh it up and write better songs . |
| 3 | Although these findings were considered in the context of differential hemispheric activation , they might more parsimoniously be thought to reflect no more than the fact that people wish to be able to look at a blackboard in the middle of the room . |
| 4 | Pearce lists these as two important qualities for a top manager together with being able to look at a problem and see the two or three key factors . |
| 5 | No-one will be able to look at a photograph , particularly a family album photo , in the same way again . |
| 6 | The implication is that the Frankish foot soldier was skilled in all round weaponry , able to fight at a distance and at close quarters . |
| 7 | If , for lack of a formula , British ministries ( and no doubt ministries elsewhere ) are unable to price the amenity value of landscapes threatened by development , how on earth would any government — or , more probably a conference of governments — be able to arrive at a system for pricing the air ? |
| 8 | It is clear from the above that higher headquarters placed great emphasis on L Detachment remaining essential fly as a parachute unit , and this was in keeping with Stirling 's doctrine that his men should be able to arrive at a target by whatever means were most suitable . |
| 9 | Somehow we then got on to the theme of French poetry , and Eliot expressed surprise at one of Herbert Read 's recent pronouncements on Laforgue and another nineteenth-century poet I can not recall and about whom at the time I knew too little to be able to arrive at an opinion . |
| 10 | Since daylight was flooding into the world , I was able to stay at a distance and keep him in sight . |
| 11 | I would say that they ought to be able to spend at a level which is within the S S As that have been given both for the county and for the districts , and therefore we should be below the three hundred and seventy eight . |
| 12 | Apparently , in the year 2000 only five collieries would be able to produce at a cost of 130p per gigajoule . |
| 13 | MOTORISTS will soon be able to tell at a glance whether it is cheaper to buy their next car abroad . |